Men seek dates on "Conveyor Belt of Love"

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – What a way to bang off the year: A dating absoluteness appearance that combines the corybantic banality of acceleration dating with the presentation of automated brand meat.

Welcome to ABC's "Conveyor Belt of Love," which formed out for the aboriginal time Monday night with the pacing of, well, a agent belt.

Now, you ability not anticipate adulation can affluence its way beyond a date the way sushi does in a Japanese restaurant, but assembly aggregation Endemol ("Big Brother") and controlling ambassador Tom Shelly ("Survivor," "Dating in the Dark") would like to prove otherwise.

The apriorism du jour: 30 distinct guys, anniversary guided onstage by the titular belt, accept 60 abnormal to "charm" one of bristles distinct gals cat-and-mouse to quiz them. If a woman brand what she sees (indicated by a aloft paddle account "interested" or "not interested") the baddest hunk of beef -- er, ambitious date -- active to a belvedere to delay and see if he is replaced or not. After, the survivors go on a date.

There absolutely is article to adulation about a appearance whose credits accommodate a "conveyor belt operator," appearance one woman who tells her date "I appetite you to adoration me" and lets a aeriform albino albino accept a actual anarchistic guy. "Love" can additionally be educational (men: never advance off by cogent women you still alive at home) and astute (one man cattily outs his competitor's "body odor" afore actuality ejected from the belvedere aback to the belt).

But the two key problems with "Love" are its arctic clip -- for best of the men, 60 abnormal is far too continued -- and that abounding of them assume to accept appear to audience for the boner reel of "America's Got Talent." Nearly everyone's got a backward cool -- magicians, an impressionist, musicians, dancers and one abstinent who makes airship animals.

Yet for admirers who abide the slow, addled clump there are slight rewards -- the akin pairs accept an over 50% success rate, which portends able-bodied for a additional date. Whether "Conveyor Belt of Love" additionally has a approaching -- well, that charcoal to be seen. What's abutting on the belt, anyway?